NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Anybody else worried that because of the long standing Republican war on SNAP people are going to experience painful hunger. Lets do something. @nanopharmnc.bsky.social and i are going to donate to some local nc food banks. Join us! Gonna match up to $500.

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Is it candy? Nope, it is a spooky 👻 cleared mouse 🧠 used for #fluorescencefriday movies

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

I made a video about the shutdown, and why this government worker won’t be a pawn. When the president and Supreme Court are both acting lawlessly, Congress must stand up and stop it. US science is collapsing and Congress needs to act. 🧪 Full video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DP1tXXE...

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways this piece from @whyy.org is great an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive whyy.org/segments/oze...

The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow. go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

👀“experience of a punished outcome generates a BLA representation that is selectively replayed when animals subsequently abort choice of the large/risky reward option.” ⚡️“… risk leads to the incorporation of newly encoding BLA neurons into the pre-choice representation”

A big step in the work of postdoc Arlene George. Nice work Arlene!!

Controlled Delivery of a Neurotrophic Factor in the Adult Mouse Brain Using Engineered Microglia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680702v1

So many academics are on HB-1 visas. This is another attack by #RussellVought on universities and scientific research. Stop telling me anything this administration does is in good faith or with any sort of policy goal except destruction.

And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Stimulus-Dependent Dopamine Dynamics from LocusCoeruleus Axons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676390v1

Whether or not you are a US scientist, you’ll know that this US administration’s reckless ideology endangers the entire globe - the trajectory of human civilization and all life on Earth. Scientists please sign.

Glorious whiskers too

Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level). If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

All donations goes straight to the project (+10% bonus donation will be added if you use my referral link above) www.researchhub.com/fund/4309/ac...

‘ In response to a request for comment, Zhu told us, “I have retired and I am in Greenland. I do not have to talk to you.” ‘

The biggest violent crime spree in Washington, DC, happened on January 6, 2021, and Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who were part of that.

All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I really worry about the world the next generation or the one after it will be growing up to live in.

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

While many institutions are capitulating to Trump, my favorite scientific societies are fighting back. Aug 1 @ascbiology.bsky.social, @asm.org, @asbmb.bsky.social, & @faseborg.bsky.social jointly filed an expanded amicus brief with the Supreme Court in American Public Health Association v. NIH 1/n

It was an incredible relief last night that this particular nightmare only lasted about five hours or 0.0189 Scaramuccis. That said, if Russ Vought can insert a footnote somewhere else that kills NIH funding, he will attempt it again. Project 2025 demands it.

Let’s hope 🤞 rollcall.com/2025/07/28/r...

James Joyce

‼️🚨‼️ Russel Vought just locked up the entirety of the remaining extramural NIH budget for this fiscal year, and part of intramural. $15 billion. ~a third of the NIH budget. THIS IS AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT. All $$ is iced except intramural salaries, admin expenses, and clinical center. NO MORE GRANTS. 🧪

New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n

This is a useful summary of how some major publishers are responding to the new NIH policy. We've just updated our policies at @biologists.bsky.social: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social and @jexpbiol.bsky.social will allow authors to deposit the accepted version with zero embargo.

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

From @aaas.org check-in with Sudip Parikh: a letter by 14 Republican senators urge the Office of Management and Budget to release NIH funding. If this includes your state (AL, ME, WV, SC, KY, KS, AR, PA, NC, IN, AK), Sudip recommends contacting & thanking them for being American science leaders.

Some sweet people have been sending physical cards and letters to the Bethesda Declaration signers. This is so kind and meaningful. It would be GREAT if they received more. Cards can be sent to Ian Morgan NIGMS 45 Center Dr, MSC 6200 Bethesda, MD 20892-6200 Ian will share them with the signers.

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

Our new paper in Current Biology "Presynaptic and postsynaptic determinants of claustro-cortical connectivity" CLA→ACC projections are highly specific: defined by presynaptic identity, postsynaptic target, and cortical layer. Check here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Neuroscience #Claustrum

My NIH diversity supplement is on this list, along with several Rutgers training grants (IMSD & G-RISE)!

Pushing back against science defunding: "Hundreds of people wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign spearheaded this spring by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers." #science 🧪

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I received my continuing NOA today and I am deeply relieved. The lab, students and postdocs can continue for at least another year. These times have been so stressful. Sharing this just to say for those who are waiting, there is hope!

I received my continuing NOA today and I am deeply relieved. The lab, students and postdocs can continue for at least another year. These times have been so stressful. Sharing this just to say for those who are waiting, there is hope!

This is horrendous

This is worse than many appreciate because it is not merely a delay. Many institutions such as mine are TERMINATING these otherwise active grants if the NoA is delayed by more than a month because they cannot afford to keep the grant supported personnel on payroll

Incredible suite of tools for labeling and manipulating specific cell types released by @alleninstitute.org www.cell.com/consortium/b... www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social